Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | About this time I had , by a certain wicked attempt — for I had a bold heart which rather put me upon courting than avoiding danger — set a hornet 's nest about my ears so I thought it better to remove myself to France and be a little more discreet in my armours . |
| 2 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 3 | I was wearing I had the , the stethoscope behind my neck and I took it off for something , I was holding it up to try and get a better |
| 4 | That bird up there with like some thing hanging out of its arse and then something hanging out of its mouth and I thought it was like |
| 5 | Then I , I put it in a saucepan and I stewed it the next |
| 6 | Josh and I planned it yesterday evening , did n't we , Josh ? |
| 7 | Mr MacAskill commented : ‘ It became clear the vote was a confidence issue in the party convener and I felt it was no longer appropriate that I should remain in his cabinet . ’ |
| 8 | He 's taking a few days ’ vacation out there , right now , so Pat and I thought it would be a good idea to let Fred Klepner stand in . |
| 9 | Neither was listening to the other talk and I thought it would be a good moment to fetch the rhubarb tart . |
| 10 | My father worked part-time in a dance hall and he picked up a Leeds United badge which I wore everywhere for about 6 months until I lost it : - ( ( ( ( . |
| 11 | Once you get out of car and I thought it was a dog that she had , bu did n't have , she did n't have a dachshund he had a little |
| 12 | ‘ I felt it all in the car and I enjoyed it . |
| 13 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 14 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 15 | ‘ Everybody wanted a piece of my action and I found it very difficult to adjust . |
| 16 | There were people on my side and I made it . |
| 17 | The ideal should be a circular seat but I felt it would take a considerable amount of timber with a lot of waster so I opted for an hexagonal shape . |
| 18 | I was fond of that duvet because I thought it was hers . |
| 19 | ( ‘ I could n't make up my mind whether I wanted it or not , and then I just panicked . ’ ) |
| 20 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
| 21 | The scent of the tea as I poured it … |
| 22 | The bag must have slipped off the jeep when I parked it . ’ |
| 23 | If I may my Lord there is an issue that was raised in my learned friends reply er which er was a new point er and where I do take issue with him and this concerns the issue of the relevance of the directive here the , the issue relating to er whether or not the er Lloyd 's Act and the society have got any relevance in respect of the directive , his submission as I understood it , was that under article one , eight , nine the directive only addressed itself to states , to the British Government and that therefore the reliance on the directive by the society and in relation to the Lloyds Act was er a misconceived er reliance . |
| 24 | ‘ I needed this piece and as I was looking around I saw exactly what I needed on this motor bike so I took it and now these guys want to kill me . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It was only during the afternoon that I remembered it was my 15th birthday . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ That sound changes as I go from the window that I picked it up in , to a different window , or to the desktop . ’ |
| 27 | I thought it was my spine but I could move my limbs so I thought it could n't be too bad . ’ |
| 28 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 29 | It it goes further south than I thought it did . |
| 30 | I was so carried away by the wisdom of my hon. Friend 's question that I found it necessary to repeat it . |